# Lycopus Virginicus

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
According to Hale, Lycps. is mentioned by Rafinesque as “partaking of the properties of 
Digitalis, Sang., Cimic. and Spig.” and as being “one of the mildest and best narcotics in existence.”  
Hale commended Lycps. as a substitute for Dig., having the advantage over it of being non -poisonous, as 
useful in hemoptysis and “wherever it is required to quell inordinate motions of the blood.” 
Briggs of Fort Lovell, related the cure of a patient of tarantula bite by application of a liquid made of Lycps. He 
said the Cherokee Indians allow themselves to be bitten by rattlesnakes, centipedes and tarantula, chewing 
as an antidote large quantities of lycopus and swallowing the juice. 
H. W. Felter, an eclectic, is quoted as commending Lycps. in passive lung hem orrhage, wild, tumultuous 
beating of heart, which often precedes the lung hemorrhage, cough of tuberculosis. Lycps . does not disorder 
the stomach, he says, but acts a tonic and appetizer. 
Morrisson made an extensive proving of Lycps. and developed unmistakable heart symptoms. Lowers the 
blood pressure, reduces the rate of the heart and increases the length of systole  to a great degree (Adren.). 
Diseases with tumultuous action of the heart and more or less pain. Feeble heart, with distress and weak 
pulse. 
Cardiac irritability with depressed force, with or without organic disease. Hemoptysis due to valvular heart 
disease. Passive hemorrhages. 
Pulmonary complaints associated with loose stools. Hemorrhoidal bleeding. Char acteristic cough with 
hemoptysis associated with feeble heart action. Violent cough at night. Lying down causes cardiac depression 
and lying on right side aggravates constriction of thorax. 
Pains shift generally right to left. Exophthalmic goiter. Beneficial in toxic goiter used in the pre-operative stage. 
History of suppressed discharges.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse motion, exercise, walk ing, ascending. Worse at sunset, evening, morning, with ach ing 
down spine, better after rising.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Increased mental and physical activity in evening.
- N ervous, hurried and tremulous.
- General 
wakefulness and morbid vigilance.
- Instability.
- Irritability, unless spoken to very softly.
- Mind wanders from one thing to another.
- Slow comprehension.
- Slight dullness of intellect with headache.
- Stupefaction, as if intoxicated, during menses.
- Increased mental and physical activity in evening.
- N ervous, hurried and tremulous.
- General 
wakefulness and morbid vigilance.
- Instability.
- Irritability, unless spoken to very softly.
- Mind wanders from one thing to another.
- Slow comprehension.
- Slight dullness of intellect with headache.
- Stupefaction, as if intoxicated, during menses.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, tends to stagger to right.
- COMMENTS - The association of Lycps.
- with Dig., Cimic.
- and Spig.
- particularly shows a very clear insight into 
the action of the remedy, which an experience of Clarke's seems to confirm.
- Miss S., 25, came to him in October, 1899.
- About three years ago she had the first symptoms of exophthalmos, 
which was ascribed by her mother to a prescription of Macrin.
- in low potency, taken for pains in the eyes and 
continued for a long period.
- The first symptoms were sore throat with ulcerations, then the goiter appeared and the heart became painful, 
its action intermittent with breathlessness and inability to take exertion.
- After a course of Thyr.
- and later of Thuj.
- 30c (she had been vaccinated), Lycps.
- 12c was given and this  took 
away all the heart pains.
- Attacks of influenza complicated the case and other remedies had to be given.
- The 
patient then did well under Spig.
- 30c, as far as the heart is concerned, though no impression was made on the 
goiter, which was small.
- The heart sounds were normal.
- Characteristic shifting symptoms.
- Pains shift from heart to eyes, from head to heart, from heart to left wrist and 
right calf, and back to wrist and heart.
- Proell noted two of his cases in which there was a shift from rectum to 
heart and head.
- Proell's two cases concerned suppression of hemorrhoidal flux.
- The patients were each 60 years of age, a 
man and a woman, both fair with light eyes, tall, very irritable with weak innervation of the heart without decided 
organic disease.
- Both had, years before, hemorrhoidal flux which stopped suddenly.
- Both were hypochondriacal and had noise 
in their left ear.
- This last symptom was the chief thing the man complained of, along with throbbing in the head preventing 
sleep.
- Neither Cact., Kalm., nor Gels, helped radically.
- The night after taking Lycps.
- lx, the man was a little better and 
in the forenoon bled from the rectum (about three table spoonfuls after defecation) with great general relief.
- The woman had glycosuria, cataract of left eye and eve ry third night was restless.
- Lycps.
- lx, one drop in the 
evening.
- The following night she was excellent, and in the morning came an abundant bleeding from the rectum 
with great relief.
- Morrison noted a case cured with Lycps.
- in which the sufferings were ass ociated with the menstrual period, 
which was exactly regular but intermittent in flow.
- The first symptoms appeared within three or four hours of 
the onset of the flow and was a deep -seated pain with heat in occiput.
- Then followed a train of symptoms, 
among them nausea, and when the nausea came on the occipital pain was better.
- Stanley Wilde cured a desperate case of pericarditis associated with bronchitis with Lycps.
- tincture, as well as 
a case of palpitation with darting pain in the heart in a young woman, following an attack of acute rheumatism 
two years before.

### Head
- Frontal headache, worse frontal eminences, often succeeded by labored heart.
- Pressure in forehead, 
worse left portion.
- Noise and throbbing in head preventing sleep after suppressed hemorrhoids.
- Frontal headache, worse frontal eminences, often succeeded by labored heart.
- Pressure in forehead, 
worse left portion.
- Noise and throbbing in head preventing sleep after suppressed hemorrhoids.

### Eyes
- Protrusion, pressing outward, with tumultuous action of heart.
- Eyes feel weak, as if fatigued.
- Neuralgic 
pain in right supra orbital region.
- Supra-orbital pain with aching in testicles.

### Ears
- Burning in right ear.

### Mouth
- Toothache in lower molars.
- Nose - Nosebleed.
- Sneezing and slight nasal catarrh.

### Throat
- Rawness at back of right palate, extending to left.
- Burning in spot on soft palate, following headache.

### Chest
- Constriction across lower half of thorax.
- Pulmonary disease associated with looseness of bowels.
- Precordial pain, constriction, tender ness.
- Rheumatoid, flying pains, associated with heart disease.
- Cyanosis.
- Heart's action is tumultuous and forcible.
- Pulse, weak, irregular intermittent, tremulous, rapid.
- Palpitation from nervous irritation with oppression around heart.
- Cardiac asthma (Sumb.).
- Rapid heart action 
of smokers.
- Kidneys - Profuse flow of liquid, watery urine, especially when the heart is most irritable, also scanty urine.
- Urine is scanty, thick, muddy.
- Diabetes mellitus, great thirst and emaciation.
- Asthma.
- Wheezing.
- Breathing op pressed.
- Cough with hemoptysis.
- Needing small but frequent.
- Cough and irritation of lungs with irregular action of heart.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Circumscribed pain and com pression in region of stomach.
- Indigestion with pain and distress in 
gastric region.
- Gastritis, enteritis.
- Nausea with faintness.
- Diarrhea, dysentery.
- Tugging pain in spleen.
- Tenderness in left hypochondrium.
- Aching in inguinal canal, bearing down 
as from hernia.
- Flatulence and rumbling.
- Severe colic followed by profuse, forcible diar rhea.

### Urinary & Genital
- Pain in testicles.
- Neuralgic pain in testicle with supra-orbital pain.
- Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia.
- Menses intermit for ten or twelve days.
- Vagina very hot, os uterus 
engorged and swollen.
- Puffing of parts on and around 
pubes and vulva, dilated condition of vagina.

### Extremities
- Muscular rheumatoid pains.
- Rheumatoid pains in  forearm and wrists with trembling of hands.
- Hands 
unsteady, writing difficult.
- Rheumatoid pains in knees, legs, thighs, wandering to back.
- Slight lameness, 
unsteady gait.

### Neck & Back
- Severe aching down spine.
- Acute pain at seventh cervical vertebra.
- Slight rheumatoid pain in left supra-
scapular muscles.
- Bladder - Tenderness in bladder.
- Bladder feels distended when empty.
- Causations - Suppressed hemorrhoidal flow.

### Skin
- Prickings as if bitten by insects.
- Troublesome urticaria on left forearm and right leg, before retiring.

### Sleep
- Wakeful on retiring, though fatigued.
- Sleep restless, full of troublesome dreams.